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Prelude to Revolution tells the story of a critical event in America's early history, when a new nation's fate was still uncertain.

Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue
1. The Most Loyal Town in the Province
2. Spies Like Us
3. Leslie's Retreat
4. Intended and Unintended Consequences
5. Memorial Exercises
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Suggested Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Peter Charles Hoffer is the Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He is author of numerous books, including When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word; Law and People in Colonial America; and The Brave New World: A History of Early America, all published by Johns Hopkins.

Reviews

Hoffer's engaging prose, clear argument, and varied use of cultural sources, such as poems and songs, make this book accessible and interesting to a broad audience... Prelude to Revolution is a fine study written primarily for a popular audience by a prolific scholar who adeptly restores the Salem Gunpowder Raid to its rightful place in the history of the American Revolution. -- Daniel S. Soucier New England Quarterly Prelude to Revolution is a well-told story that deserves to be read. Although it is written for an undergraduate audience, graduate students and the public would also profit from and enjoy this work. As Hoffer walks the reader through the event and how is was remembered and then forgotten, he reveals something of the practice of the historian's craft, even as he resurrects a dimly-remembered event. -- Ricardo A. Herrera History